Erasmus Quellinus Ii (page 12)

Detail of decoration in the Domus Aurea in Rome, 64-68 AC Classical Antiquities

The Marble Room with Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities of the Ambraser Gallery in the Lower Belvedere, 1876 Carl Goebel

Tertullian French School

Mirmillon - A Gallic Gladiator Jean Leon Gerome

Venus, Bacchus and Ceres with Mortals in a Love Garden (Elegant Companionship under a Garden Bower) Louis de Caullery

Equestrian Portrait of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy Angelo Inganni

Venus and Cupid Anonymous

Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, 1606-23 Jan the Elder Brueghel

Aeneas Receiving a New Set of Armour from Venus Ferdinand Bol

The nine Muses with Pegasus and Mount Helicon (From Argumentum by Guarinus Veronensis), 1485-1499 Anonymous

15th-Century French Manuscript Illumination Depicting Aesculap in His Room Anonymous

Gaius Marcus Corialanus setting a firebrand to Corioli Anonymous

A Case of Embarrassment of Riches Anonymous

Illustration from De re metallica libri XII by Georgius Agricola, 1556 Anonymous

Pythagoras Anonymous

Brussels, The funerary monument in Martyrs' Square, by William Geefs Jules Queval

Ruin aqueduct Anonymous

Emperor Napoleon I Dictating his Memoirs to Emmanuel Las Cases on St. Helena, 1860 Nicolas Eustache Maurin

Tragopogon Pratensis Var. Minor Yellow Goat's-Beard Var. B. Anonymous

Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II King of Prussia and Frederick Augustus I the 'Just', Elector of Saxony meeting at... Anonymous

Bust of Venus de 'Medici, in profile to the left Augustinus Terwesten I

King James II Receiving the News of the Landing of William of Orange in 1688, 1851 Edward Matthew Ward

'The Jelly Fish', observed by William Funnell Anonymous

John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules Andrea Soldi

Parnassus (Mars and Venus) Andrea Mantegna

Venus at her Toilet Jan van the Elder Kessel

Queen Mary II's funeral, Westminster Abbey, London Romeyn de Hooghe

Linaria Elatine; Sharp-Leaved Fluellin Anonymous

The Hunterian Museum Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Anonymous

Queen Trisala reclining, page from an illustrated Jain manuscript of the Kalpasutra, Indian, 15th century Indian School

Statue of Pompeius Magnus Anonymous

Museo, S. Giuliano, L'Aquila, Abruzzo Anonymous

Queen Elizabeth 2 Sailing out of New York Harbor Anonymous

Portrait of Emperor Augustus on medallion Assuerus van Londerseel

Heironimus Benalius-Girolamo Benaglio of Bergamo, 1603 Maltese School